By Pickett H.B. No. 1346
75R5279 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain inactive licenses in the regulation of the real
1-3 estate industry; imposing a fee.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 11, The Real Estate License Act (Article
1-6 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 Sec. 11. [(a)] The commission shall charge and collect the
1-9 following fees:
1-10 (1) a fee not to exceed $100 for the filing of an
1-11 original application for a real estate broker license;
1-12 (2) a fee not to exceed $100 for annual renewal of a
1-13 real estate broker license;
1-14 (3) a fee not to exceed $50 for the filing of an
1-15 original application for a real estate salesman license;
1-16 (4) a fee not to exceed $50 for annual renewal of a
1-17 real estate salesman license;
1-18 (5) a fee not to exceed $25 for an application for a
1-19 license examination;
1-20 (6) a fee not to exceed $20 for filing a request for a
1-21 license for each additional office or place of business;
1-22 (7) a fee not to exceed $20 for filing a request for a
1-23 license for a change of place of business, change of name, return
1-24 to active status, or change of sponsoring broker;
2-1 (8) a fee not to exceed $20 for filing a request to
2-2 replace a license lost or destroyed;
2-3 (9) a fee not to exceed $400 for filing an application
2-4 for approval of an education program under Section 7(f) of this
2-5 Act;
2-6 (10) a fee not to exceed $200 a year for operation of
2-7 an education program under Section 7(f) of this Act;
2-8 (11) a fee of $15 for transcript evaluation;
2-9 (12) a fee not to exceed $10 for preparing a license
2-10 history;
2-11 (13) a fee not to exceed $50 for the filing of an
2-12 application for a moral character determination;
2-13 (14) an annual fee of $20 from each real estate broker
2-14 to be transmitted to Texas A&M University for the Texas Real Estate
2-15 Research Center as provided by Section 5(m) of this Act; [and]
2-16 (15) an annual fee of $17.50 from each real estate
2-17 salesman to be transmitted to Texas A&M University for the Texas
2-18 Real Estate Research Center as provided by Section 5(m) of this
2-19 Act; and
2-20 (16) a fee not to exceed $15 for maintaining a license
2-21 on inactive status for not more than five years after the date the
2-22 license becomes inactive.
2-23 SECTION 2. Section 13A, The Real Estate License Act (Article
2-24 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding
2-25 Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows:
2-26 (d) The commission shall notify a person whose license is
2-27 on inactive status or a person who is applying for inactive status
3-1 of the fee imposed under Section 11(16) of this Act. A licensee who
3-2 does not pay the fee before the 31st day after the date of
3-3 notification may be denied inactive status or removed from inactive
3-4 status.
3-5 (e) The commission may remove a person from inactive status
3-6 if that person has been on inactive status continuously for five
3-7 years from the date the person was first classified as inactive.
3-8 At least 30 days before the date of removal of a person from
3-9 inactive status, the commission must notify that person by
3-10 certified mail at the last known address according to commission
3-11 records that the person will be removed from inactive status.
3-12 (f) All fees collected for the maintenance of a person on
3-13 inactive status shall be remitted to the comptroller for deposit to
3-14 the credit of an account in the general revenue fund. Money in the
3-15 account may be appropriated only for administration of this Act.
3-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.